invasion of iraq on february 5, 2003, at a meeting of the un security council, us secretary of state colin powellfacts and behavior of iraq indicate that saddam hussein and his regime are hiding the growing production of weapons of mass destruction and demonstrated an ampoule with a certain white powder , presumably with anthrax, was not convinced by the powder of the members of the security council and they refused to sanction the invasion of iraq. and yet, a month and a half later, a military operation began, five divisions of the united states and great britain did not meet serious resistance from 23 divisions of iraq during the invasion killed 9,200 iraqi military and 7,300 civilians, neither biological nor chemical nor nuclear weapons. it was not found today in washington, more and more working through intermediaries, we have seen it. 2020 on on our streets, we see it now, when in neighboring ukraine more militants are training to attack belarus, when the center of information and psychological operations of the south, the neighbors repeatedly provoke our people and the military with fake st

and so colin powell is influenced not only with reagan, but the bushes and a lot of people in washington was exponential. and he was a a good man. yeah, i know. president reagan stated publicly at one point that he had hoped that powell would run for president someday and he'd vote for them. so really, something bret is just been a very quick hour spent with you. just just wonderful. thank you for coming. and thank you for such a terrific, terrific book, which i'm so happy to have read it. thank you very much, john. i really appreciate it. thank you. great. and you've been watching american history tv. every saturday on c-span to visit the people and places that tell the american story and watch thousands of historical stories online. any time at c-span dawgs history. you can also find us on twitter, facebook and youtube at c-span history. you're watching book tv. with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend, book tv television for serious readers. here's a look at some recent publishing news. both mike pence's so help me god and michelle obama's. the light we carry were released

invasion of iraq on february 5, 2003, at a meeting of the un security council, us secretary of state colin powellfacts and behavior of iraq indicate that saddam hussein and his regime are hiding, expanding production of weapons of mass destruction and demonstrated to the audience an ampoule with some white powder, presumably with anthrax bacilli. the powder did not convince the members of the security council and they refused to sanction the invasion of iraq. also 1.5 months later, a military operation began, five us and british divisions did not meet serious resistance from 23 iraqi divisions during the invasion, 9,200 iraqi military and 7,300 civilians were killed, neither biological nor chemical non-nuclear weapons were found today in washington increasingly works through intermediaries. we saw it 2020 we see it on our streets now, when in neighboring poland ukraine is training militants to attack belarus when the center of information and psychological operations of the southern neighbor over and over again provoke our people and the military with fake throws. and here is such an intermediary

julia colin powell is negotiating and -- julia: powell is negotiating on this and the fact we saw suchge in language is a statement of that broad support for the decision to slow the pace and so i think there was a re-crafting of the message by any means necessary, whatever it takes to cool inflation to now we are seeing that our tools are effective, we will keep going with strong resolve to get the job done. but we are also knocking to be looking at lagging indicators. i think from the commentary we've heard from a variety of policymakers since then there is broad support for that decision. it's not just eight of the decision to slow the pace, there is still a clear resolve to go higher and stay higher for longer and so i think it's not easily, does not fit neatly into a dovish hawkish category. >> i listen to jay powell speak and lael brainard speak and they do seem to be on different pages at the moment with respect to doves versus hawks. brainard says has sounded to give him a more dovish. to kaylee's point about the unity around the thanksgiving table, are you surprised at how the

when that administration lead 1st by, by colin powell and leader by condo, lisa rice or, or vice versa, whatever it was, worked so hard to not talk to america's enemies. so like i say it's a good thing that the 2 sides are talking. it's a good thing that, that they're talking about issues in general. like the use of nuclear weapons. it's a bad thing that it's not the diplomats doing the talking because perhaps there we could make some progress on getting past this conflict right now. certainly calls attention to the fact that we're not seeing those talks between diplomats and at the same time. the other strange part of this is that washington is saying that the focus of these talks was the rising threat of nuclear conflict, but not ukraine. is that even possible to separate one topic from the other given everything that's going on right now? no, of course not, and you know, this is another thing too, that is kind of taken hold in the western media. this has been going on for 5 or 6 weeks now where the western media is accusing russia of having threatened the use of tactical nuclear wea

bush and colin powell were not straightforward with the american people about wmds, the significance of the threat from saddam hussein and we lost the support of the american people. i was listening to the program earlier and talking about the inability in the gop to not tell the truth. there will be consequences for that. >> we are still waiting but yes i hope that there is consequences for lying and for completely deleting values from the core. the professor talked about the army ranger handbook. you discuss how civil rights leaders took a page from the military handbook. the ranger handbook carries a rule supposedly promulgating in 1759 by major robert rogers. tell the truth about what you see and do. there is an army depending on us for correct information. simply a lesson an activist taken from participating in sit-ins is absolutely essential to report ground truth accurately. when you're really honest with yourself and other people you give yourself and them the opportunity to solve problems using reality instead of lack of reality making problem solving much more efficient and

croft and jim baker were a remarkable team that had the benefit of working with dick cheney and colin powell and the spectacular team that made a difference but it came because clinton had a vision but did not allow himself to be stuck on stupid. he was always invited to other solutions or better way of debating it and he did not count his chest and say i did it. he went overboard saying -- could have been we did it. >> i will narrow the question to you because andrew card opened the door. what struck me in the book, you and i both served as administrator, lack of appreciation for humanitarian leadership and crisis response, you were there at the time and extended and mobilized these tools and became administrator. talk about the innovation we saw from bush 412 usaid and humanitarian leadership. >> the dean of the bush school is a friend of mine, a friend of all of us and he was a great president but we need to talk about mistakes. he didn't do anything about the reconstruction of afghanistan after the russians left. in the introduction i said i need to check this out to make sure this is co

so colin powell's influence not only with reagan but the bushes and a lot of people in washington were exponential. >> i know president reagan stated publicly at one point that he had hoped that powell would run for presidency and he would vote for him. bret it's been a very quick hour to spend with you and just wonderful. thank you for coming and thank you for such a terrific, terrificamy. hello, i'm amy driscoll. i'm the deputy opinion editor for the miami herald. i'm really happy to be here today. welcome to the miami book fair 2022 taking place onne

so colin powell's influence not only with reagan but the bushes and a lot of people in washington were exponential. >> i know president reagan stated publicly at one point that he had hoped that powell would run for presidency and he would vote for him. bret it's been a very quick hour to spend with you and just wonderful. thank you for coming and thank you for such a terrific, terrificrogram guide for c-span.org/history. >> welcome to the

the feb. 5 invasion of iraq. 2003 at a meeting of the un security council, us secretary of state colin powell stated the facts and behavior of iraq indicate that saddam hussein and his regime are hiding the growing production of weapons of mass destruction and showed the audience an ampoule with some white powder, presumably with bacilli of anthrax, the powder of the security council members did not convince and they refused to authorize the invasion of iraq and yet one and a half a month later, a military operation began, five us and british divisions did not meet serious resistance from 23 iraqi divisions during the invasion, 9.200 were killed iraqi military and 7,300 civilians, neither biological nor chemical non-nuclear weapons, have been found today in washington, more and more working through intermediaries. we saw it in 2020 on our streets. we see now, when in neighboring poland ukraine is training militants to attack belarus, when the center of information and psychological operations of the south is being provoked over and over again by our people and the military with fake stuffing.

invasion of iraq on february 5, 2003, at a meeting of the un security council, us secretary of state colin powellehavior of iraq indicate that saddam hussein and his regime are hiding the growing production of weapons of mass destruction and showed the audience an ampoule with a white powder , presumably with anthrax bacilli powder did not convince the members of the security council and they refused to sanction the invasion of iraq. and yet, a month and a half later, a military operation began, five divisions of the united states and great britain did not meet serious resistance from 23 divisions of iraq during the invasion, 9,200 iraqi military and 7,300 civilians were killed, no biological , chemical or nuclear weapons were found today in washington more and more works through intermediaries we are seen. 2020 we see it on our streets. now, when in neighboring poland ukraine is training militants to attack belarus, when the center of information and psychological operations of the southern neighbors over and over again provoke our people and military fake stuffing. here is such an intermediary

i'm a fan of the colin powels and barack obama and john mccains. these guys had values. it's about value and staying family a oriented. nothing to me from that guy said family. that's all that mattered. the people in that room were so diverse, so completely -- there were straight people in there, everything in there. they just came to have a good time. we were talking last night, me and my daughter and wife. we've been upset. we were talking and you know, that was the greatest night we were having with raymond and chip and joann. the six of us were having a great time enjoying the show, the girls got a chance to dance. raymond was dancing with me daughter. a young man dancing near my daughter pulled her out once the shooting started. i was sitting down. nerve th everybody in there has a story. i don't think mine is more special. i understand it come office that way and is different. i just want people to be good to each other. that's it. i've seen really bad stuff. deployed and here i don't like it. >> let me talk to you about that, if you will. i don't mean to cut you o

jim baker were a remarkable team, and they also had the benefit of working with dick cheney and colin powell. it was a spectacular team that made a difference. it came because of president i division, but he did not allow himself to be stuck on stupid. he was always looking to learn, always looking for solutions are a better way of debating it. but he didn't practice braggadocious, didn't pound his chest and said i did it. but in fact, he went overboard and said you did, it when it could've been a we did it. >> i'm going to jump in and narrow the question to you. because andy really opened the door. what struck me in the book, obviously you and i having served of a administrator of usaid, it's a lack of appreciation for what happened in that bush presidency for humanitarian assistance, humanitarian leadership and crisis response. obviously, you are there at the time and then eventually extended and mobilize these tools when you became administrator. andrew, if you would, talk a little about the innovations that we saw from the bush 41 team with respect to usaid and humanitarian leadership? >

meaning, and i'll just pick a random congressman who wants to vote for colin powell, we've seen that before, and random random congressman wants to vote for george bush, we've seen that all the time, but ali is right, kevin mccarthy is the leading contender to be speaker and he has to convert tomorrow, ali says that is the blueprint, that is right and he needs 200, and he needs to add 18. i feel like steve kornacki for a second. he has to eight 18 more supporters to his list. and quite frankly, that's going to be a challenge. especially if they're at 222 or 223, or 219. just losing one or two is very, very difficult. even with john boehner who had a 20-seat majority, and struggled to get the speakership at times. so this is like, this is as difficult of a speaker election i think that we have probably seen in modern times. >> and then real quick, jake, on the dem side, right, the question marks here are around house speaker nancy pelosi as speaker, what have you heard on that front and the punchbowl has new reporting. >> nancy pelosi is not saying until november 30th or thereabouts,

colin powell said one time, everybody likes to dream papers. everybody would love to get on the computer and play wizard word. we insisted on edits on a hard copy. they'd come to us. we'd have a stack of copies. >> i really wish we had done that. >> there's no other way to do it because you put it in their hand, and also when somebody has to take the time to write something, that's thinking too, rather than just dashing something off, the idea of having all of these electronic copies of the speech, redlined and all of that, it made our job miserable. but the hard copy, you go through them. and the president, if you worked on a speech, your name and your phone number was on the bottom of the last page. and the president always made clear, and the vice president, you are accountable for this speech, which means that you have the power to make sure that the speech still works as a whole. that doesn't mean that you can overrule the national security adviser on a question of wording or whatever. but it does mean that when you get all of these multip

national minorities, a destroyed, and iraq because it was done not only in a test tube, which shook colin powellwn, because human rights are violated there if i do not justify the regime. e hussein but in my opinion, as far as i know there is a question. uh, political repressions there, numbered in the tens, hundreds. which, of course, is bad. i certainly condemn this as a citizen of russia. well, listen, after the well- known story happened in iraq, something on hundreds of thousands, and some say even millions of dead, bled shattered side. now they tell us, we will bring our own rules to qatar, according to which you will live, i repeat, this is not about gays. this is not about lgbt people, this is about the fact that someone supposedly has the right to impose their own rules on the rest of the world. today you showed a story about our icebreaker. i remind our viewers that there is such an organization. the arctic council, which includes russia from the eight members of this arctic council of russia minus russia means now there are seven five are phenomenal, and the other two are sweden and f

here's colin powell, so he's sitting out.theless. yes, no one look, we are sure that we have the most chemical weapons there, and this monster is not crossing . here it is, our dear e, they didn’t have michael bohm on them who would stand in this hall. listen, you need a thorough investigation. unfortunate girl, remember, she also entered like a bath girl. maybe i don’t know, yulia, you mean, it means this girl who is the heroine’s twitter, which yes syrian yes wrote down no there was a girl, kuwait, or something, a girl who spoke and told you remember, yes and these are the soldiers they are it means that in this maternity hospital, it means that the unfortunate women were thrown off from these very, as they say, blood everywhere from their unfortunate beds. everyone listened to it. so , some later it turned out that the girl sent her daughter, which means that in the states the text was carefully checked with confident and so on. here and uh, it's okay, nonetheless each of these statements. each of these meaningly poignant

it was a good example of colin powell's law, that first reports are always inaccurate and incomplete.e took a moment. it was measured. they investigated. they didn't fly often and respond. i took that as a good sign. the grownups were in charge in nato, and people said let's not get into a quick reaction cycle. i was somewhat heartened by that. >> and talking specifically about poland. poland's ambassador to the united states said we have this reputation of being hot heads. look at us. we were calm, and by all reports, people i talked to on the ground were saying everybody was extraordinarily measured. all the nato leaders were extraordinarily measured. they sat, they talked. they decided as you said to move forward together, regardless of what you did. it ended up the report was erroneous, the ap reporter who filed it has been fired, but in realtime, that could have been obviously quite a danger. finish up on that if you want to. i would love you, though, also. we can get a little bit of world cup news and foreign policy in. iran's leadership blaming the team's drumming yesterday, th

here's colin powell, so he's sitting out.ur dear e, they didn’t have michael bohm on them who would stand in this hall. listen, you need a thorough investigation. unfortunate girl, remember, she also joined, how she, maybe, i don't know. julia , you mean this girl who the heroine’s twitter, which yes is syrian yes, depicted no, there was a girl, a kuwaiti, or something, a girl who spoke and told you, yes, and these soldiers they mean in this maternity hospital, so the unfortunate women were thrown off these very ones, what is their name from their beds of the unfortunate everywhere blood. everyone listened to it. so, some later it turned out that the girl sent her daughter, which means that in the states the text was carefully checked with confident and so on. here and uh, it's okay, nonetheless each of these statements. each of these means poignant stories caused not no demands to grow up, but quite specific. here it is the ninetieth year, and the ninetieth year. yes she has each of these in that poignant speeches. after tha